The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-11-25

suuAoy tiioIuiLS. Auotc tS o~est CcsJ - l,vxsv
among the rescued passengers who does MOI
mourn the loss of a wife. husband, brother,
sister or child, and in some cases only one
member of large family is found to have
been saved. Tho Survivors were supplied
with clothing by the officers and crew of the
Edre as far as possible, and additional gar
| ments were furnished to the unfortunate up
on their arrival at Dover.
The bodies recovered and brought to Do.
yer include those of q woman with a letter
addressed, II. Curront, Rue st. GILES, Brus-
| sels;" Solomon Goldschmidt, a cigar dealer
in London; - Burtsig, of Wasbud; a man
with the name Jacket" marked on his linen;
Jew with letter addressed "Sebensten
Hermann, l9S Stanton street. New York ~
q man with a letter addressed, "John Koch
mel, Sandusky," and Henri Blanc, of Ohio,
the ouly cabin passenger Oh board, and a
man named Friedman, a merchant at Ko-
was. The others not yet identified are most
ly women. Mrs. Lobenstein, Peter Stei-
berg, chief mate Chief Ste wardess TIal, and
- Duntt, second steward
Nearly all of the dead show evidences of
having experienced great suffering. and many
of them appear to have died from other
causes than drowning.
The Scholten lies four miles Off the Admir-
atty pier. Three masts arc visible and as
her position Is dangerous to navigation buoy
lights have been placed over tn sunken YES
sci.
MIR. Moore, passenger, says: "There were
six English passengers on board the Scholten.
One OF them, girl, asked us to keep to-
gether so that the English might 60 down to-
gether. was in the water long time be.
fore being picked up. The water was at
freezing temperature aud this fact undoubt.
edly fastened the death Of many"
Another passenger says the Storage pas
sengers became terror. stricken and ran about
the ship in wild confusion. The captain
tried in vain to restore order among them,
but they were not TO be pacifed. When the
two boats were lowered these frenzied men
and women rushed for thom and were with
great difficulty kept from sinking them.
Charles Mills, Of Red Hill Surrey, saws
the life boats appeared as il they had not
been used for long time. They had to be
chopped away with axes, with the assistance
of passengers. 81 called out to those on the
bridge to fire rockets, he continued at was
q long time before they did. The greatest
confusion prevailed. The ship was right
over on her port side before they
fired tho rockets. | waited until the
water touched the boilers, putting
out the fires. Then I got hold of belt, but
a Dutch sailor snatched il away We were
all mixed ogether--foreigners and English
clinging to one another in the water. saw
several drowned in this way and had tho
greatest difficulty to keep clear of them. I
gave spar to a woman to hold on to. The
Dutch sailors wanted to save themselves and
even thrust women aside. l can swim
well and 1 swan about until I
got to the Edre, when rope
was thrown to me. After the collision went
down into the cabin and woke two Dutch
ladies, but they were paralyzed with terror
and wouldn't get up, despite all entreaties
heard other complaints about tho conduct of
the Dutch sailors. The confusion was ex-
treme. Everybody seemed terror-stricken.
this may account for the apparent want of
discipline"
The Scholten was a firstclass Clyde built
steamship, thirteen years old, net tonnage
1,7l0 valued at about $3.50, 900. She had ac-
commodations for sixty cabin, forty inter-
mediate and 300 steerage passengers Her
captains name was Taats, and this was his
first trip on her, he being one Of the lost. He
was an experienced officer, but had. suffered
ono or two disasters previously.